Joseph Roux Quotes

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

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• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Think
  • Marriage

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Society
  • Political

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Romantic

• I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Choose

• I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Away

• It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Single

• You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Think
  • Free

• I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Think
  • Better
  • Size

• Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Money
  • Why
  • Think

• 'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Think
  • Want
  • Career

• Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Think
  • Him

• This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Now

• I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Think
  • Film
  • Understand

• I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Remember
  • Government
  • First

• The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Believe
  • Possibility
  • Arguing

• For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • World
  • Present
  • Husband

• If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

  

  Anna Friel
  • Beautiful
  • Meaningful
  • Ifs

• The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

  

  Joseph Roux
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Unbearable